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The average human attention span shrank by roughly two-thirds between 2004 and the mid-2010s, with the steepest drop around 2012. That's from UC Irvine researcher Gloria Mark, and it anchors a New York Times op-ed by Cal Newport -- Georgetown CS ...

Jake Worth, a programmer who went from a non-reader to 44 books last year, credits one rule above everything else: read at least 15 pages every day. That's it. -- 15 pages. The minimum keeps momentum going, keeps the story alive in his head, and ...

Men are turning to chatbots for romantic and sexual roleplay in rising numbers, and philosopher Isaac Shur thinks the reason has less to do with loneliness than with control. In a new essay for the American Philosophical Association's blog, the ...

After more than a century of humans doing their absolute best to wipe them out, California condors in Northern California may finally be attempting the radical act of reproducing in the wild again. The team hasn't visually confirmed the existence of ...

The annual Floating Bosch Parade celebrates the fantastical painter Hieronymus Bosch. People make incredible, surreal, floating displays and send them down a stream. You can see last year's marvelous creations in a video here. One of the displays is ...

In a shocking twist that will surprise absolutely no one paying attention, anti-vaxxer RFK Jr's CDC appears to have sat on research showing that vaccines do, in fact, work. This is an inconvenient detail in an era where vibes are doing more policy ...

Rushadicus, self-described as the "infamous cello goblín from the land of sneth," stirred up some glorious mischief outside a Scientology center -- watch the video here. Rushadicus plays the cello in a way that can only be defined as "goblin mode."

If the lack of a native port of Adobe Creative Suite (or The GIMP's peculiarities) is a problem for you on Linux, check out Fog Panther, which describes itself as "a professional image editor" built natively for the open-source operating system. --

In the Shadow of the CPC is a book about the Amstrad CPC, an 8-bit personal computer released in 1984 and popular in the U.K., France, Spain and Germany, selling about 3 million units through the decade. Though not so well-known as the Commodore 64 ...

For 35 years, Jim Woodring's character Frank has wandered the hallucinatory landscape of the Unifactor without saying a word. Readers interpreted the allegories on their own. Now Frank has a voice. Quacky, out August 11 from Fantagraphics, is a prose ...